The original track was called SF100, and was written for my then girlfriend, Claire.  She was massively into Techno, and I was trying to show i could do that too.  
for some reason, i set the tempo at 127 bpm and rercreated the bassline from Salt N' Pepa's Push It.  So it wasn't really anything like techno - apart from the quite abrasive beats and cowbell.

rush forward into 2025, this is one of those reworks that just fell into place in a couple of hours.  going a bit more post-rave / post dub-step techno.  you'll still here some classic rave pianos in there nouncing around on the delay....

Called SF100 because Claire and I were either off to San Francisco or had just come back (can't remember now specifically).  that was a wild holiday thanks to some people who were part of the Grateful Dead, who we met at a Cut Chemist gig.  

Claire - should you ever read this.  thank you for those times.  i hope the last 20 years have been good to you.  

(All the photos for the cover art are from San Francisco - albeit a later trip in 2015)



SF'76 Breaking All The Rules

Another remake - this time of a track called 'Short Story' from Ambition (2006).  Now with some vocals and dialling up the bladerunner style synth sounds.  one of those tracks that feels faster than it's 102 BPM.  Renamed from the lyrics.  This was a pretty quick rework and the only issue was getting the bass to punch without distortion.  fingers crossed its ok on most systems.

Let Me Show You Something

The final track from 2006's 'Ambition' to be remade for 2025's 'Realism'.  And what nice little pop tune this has turned out to be.  

kept the original samples - but with choice placement rather than repetition tending towards boredom.  

this is song about saying f**k the world.  it might be mad out there, but let's at least go and have some fun.

cover art is from a fire engine rushing off on duty in New York City, c2006.

Fire At Leisure II

Looking for a much older track, I found this one - which was written in Singapore around 2014.   Three hours later I had a rework pretty much completed.
This the Devon of the South West UK, famous for its creamy custard and rice pudding.  By way of the Basque Country for the feel of the track.  
Also by way of a lady called Devon who worked at the agency and had found something out that she had to tell the board and felt bad about it.

Devon Knows II

This one has an interesting back story. I was asked to write some music for the new vision and training programme where at worked. Which was Carat in London. The core of it was 3 ‘Cs’. I can’t remember what they were though. Communication, consumer, culture or something probably. 

Anyhow I wrote a couple of versions, including a short sting to be used as a mobile ringtone. Yes it was those times when I had Blue Monday playing out of my Nokia or Motorola. I don’t know if anyone ever had it as a ringtone. Hmmm. 

2025 - added some gloriously uplifting vocals which have nothing to do with the 3 C’s. Or three seas. The AI cover art tries to capture a few Carat legendary memories - by the sea of course. 

Three Seas

This was written in my last few months living in East dulwich in London,  before I moved to Singapore in early 2010. I was going for a kind of dance Ibiza balearic style beat with a sort of lazy sunny feel.  it was another song that was nearly there but never quite finished.

So now 15 years later in 2025 I’ve finally got back to it. I’ve re-worked it re-thought it. it always had some guitars on it. Now found new guitar sounds a few counterpoint melodies that seemed to work quite well here.

Is it last days still?  well if it is last days it’s not of living in a place. it’s perhaps of the industry in which I work which seems to be crumbling down. Advertising for so long has been ripping off clients and not providing a genuinely good service and now it’s come home to roost as AI has dispelled and destroyed the ‘magic’ that charged at a premium.  I feel almost any week that goes by my job could disappear. Not because I don’t do a good job but because of the industry around me - in which I am complicit, has focused on fueling its own egos rather than actually helping clients and brands grow.

So Last days, indeed.  
Of the modern Roman Empire perhaps. 

Last Days II

After years of composing, I finally got around to releasing something. The Prague autumn is beautiful, and sometimes strangely sad, so I hope you enjoy the way I see it.

This track was created exclusively using [OMNISPHERE 3, OMNISPHERE FX, and TRIAZ].

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So named because it was written with Dave the guitarist round his place - which was on a road called elephant stairs or something. 
This was at the end if a session where we’d recorded lots of uptempo electric guitar stuff. And then just jammed on a couple of keyboards with a backing beat. It would have been 2009 I think or early 2010. 

15+ years later, I actually couldn’t tell you who did which keyboard part!  But have added guitars, vocals and grinned it down from its rather excessive 8 mins. 

Round The Elephant II

An original song idea. Trying it out. Played an acoustic guitar and then overdubbed a variety of synths using the new version of Omnisphere. 

Slow These Rhythms 10-25-25 v2.4

Self-indulgent e-bow into electronica into 8-string climax with the world's slowest Rachmaninoff-inspired sweeping arpeggios in a modern take on this classic tearjerker from Wind & Wuthering.

Afterglow

Bright

WORDS WRITTEN BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI
WORDS READ BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI
MUSIC BY DEEPLY DAZZLED

 I'VE LAID IN BED ALL DAY
BUT
THERE'S NOTHING REALLY YOU CAN DO EASILY

LIVE 
OR DIE
IT'S ALL HARD
IT'S ALL HARD

LIVE OR DIE
IT'S ALL HARD

LET ME HAVE ANOTHER BEER HERE

AND I WAIT WITHOUT WONDER

WE HAVE DONE THIS TO OURSELVES

AND I WAIT WITHOUT WONDER

WE DESERVE THIS 

AND I WAIT WITHOUT WONDER

WE HAVE DONE THIS TO OURSELVES

I'VE LAID IN BED ALL DAY
BUT
THERE'S NOTHING REALLY YOU CAN DO EASILY

LIVE 
OR DIE
IT'S ALL HARD
IT'S ALL HARD


THEN HE HEARD THE SHOTS

THEN IT WAS QUIET


LIVE OR DIE
IT'S ALL HARD

Recorded in 2013 
On a Windows XP Computer that died ten years later.

Live or Die

A slow-burn almost Taylor-like pop tune.  Made from the remenants of a synth jam 16-bar sequence from about 2012.


So quite a remake really.  it's a sad, but optimistic, yet tragic song.  if you can get to when the vocals kick in!

Cover art was inspired by a Verve EP cover that had a vending machine selling smotions.  Here we have a whole supermarket of the future letting yuo change whatever your heart desires. (and your bank balance can afford).

Change Your Lifestyle

Into The Feasting Zone

This is an original song created without AI. The inspiration was the Nu Metal sound of the late 1990s. I especially was referencing the guitar sounds of Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit. I wanted to create a very heavy sound and I experimented with panning and volume level to try to get the thickest electric guitar and bass sound when the chorus drops. I had many effects on my Line 6 amplifier and I used the new Omnisphere 3 to add huge bass sounds. 

Ain't Gonna Do It 10-29-25 v2.6

This is a track I recently made for my up coming Tribute To Wild FM Megamix #2....which will be available to stream right here on Soundcloud next month, stay tuned!!!

Renegade Master (90s Mix)

It's been a while, with all the remakes.... but here's a brand new tune!  

is it me talking about me? Or me thinking what someone else might be thinking?  

letting go is hard.  but it's less hard than being pushed off, I guess.

I Can't Seem To Let Go

Acoustic guitar; folk; Americana; jam band influences; blues; rock; old time; bluegrass; grungey stuff. Even some electro and EDM vibes occasionally. I play a wide mix of music with a lot of different people.

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New Orleans Trap, future bass producer. More music coming soon.

30+ years of writing music.  now back to lots of hardware to complement the soft synths.  And of course, the compulsion to add the kitchen sink, fridge and oven is still there!

Kit:
Logic 
Cubase
Ableton Live
Reason
Expose
Loopcloud
Arturia V collection, Pigments
Arturia microfreak, minifreak, matrixbrute, minibrute, Spark 
Roland boutique Juno, Jupiter, JP3, 808 and 909
Arturia Audiofuse
Focusrite Scarlett
Roland Jupiter Xm, JD-Xi, Gaia SH-01 MDC-1 Dance Module
Korg Modwave, microKorg, MicroKorg XL, korg ER-1, korg 05RW, kaoss pad
Novation ultranova, mininova, a-station, Circuit Tracks
Access Virus-b
Beringher Deep Mind 12, UB-Xa, TD-3, Crave, MS-1
Nord Stage EX
Sequential Prophet 2000
Waldorf Pulse
M-audio Venom
Native instruments kontakt, massive, reaktor, FM8, battery, guitar rig, traktor, maschine, absynth, and the rest of the ultimate collection 
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Spitfire Albion 
Aria orchestra 
Softube Parallels
Waves Gold and a lot of their plug ins. Abbey Road TG, brauer motion, butch vig vocals, ovox, flow motion
Isotope ozone
Sugar Bytes effectrix, looperator, turnado, factory, cyclop, obscurium 
Audio damage dubstation, panstation
AAS lounge lizard, strum, chromophone
UVI relay 
Fender Stratocaster 
Schecfer Diamond Electric 
Line6 Pod Guitar Mukti Effects 
Boss guitar multi effects and various other pedals 
Peavey Bass 
Yamaha DTX electronic drum kit 
Alesia drum pads 
Stanton turntables

𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐫 

𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬/𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐬/𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬  

Welcome to my world, feel free to listen & most importantly, enjoy the music!
I would also like to thank you in advanced for the likes, follows, re-posts & comments, your feedback is much appreciated.

Also, coming to Soundcloud later this year is my second Megamix tribute to Australia's radio station & CD compilation: "Wild FM", featuring a MASSIVE 50 tracks from the 90's & 2000's. If you're a fan of my work then you will not want to miss this, stay tuned!!!

Once again, my work is dedicated to all the true loyal listeners & followers, who continue coming back to support my work & the NRG genre, thank you!!!


𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬:

𝐉𝐏𝐑𝐚𝐫𝐭
𝐂𝐚𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐮
𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐲

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